Carpet-beater.



w. A. KELLER.

CARPET BEATEB.

APPLICATION FILED JAILZB, 19M,

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Inventor Attorneys 7I-IE NORRIS PETERS 00., PHom-L/THQ, WASHINGTON. v

WOOD A. KELLER, or BLooMsBuRo, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-BEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed January 26, 1914. Serial No. 814,524.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, W001) A. KELLER, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Bloomsburg, in the county of Columbia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Carpet-Beater, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to carpet heaters, and aims to provide a novel and improved device of this character.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a novel handle for the carpet beater, and a guard cooperating therewith, in order that the beater may be manipulated with eflectiveness or eflioiency and in order that the hand will not be subject to such contact with the carpet as would result in injury to the hand.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combi nation and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The preferred embodiment of the invention has been illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein the figure is a perspective view of the carpet beater.

In carrying out the invention, reference being had to the drawing, the head of the beater comprises two side frames orwings fashioned from the wires 1 and 2, it being understood that any suitable wire or other stock may be employed possessing the requisite qualities. Each of the wires is doubled and crossed, as at 3, so as to provide a loop lat the intermediate portion. The loops 4: are disposed at the forward. or outer end of the head and are provided with the loosely interlocked eyes 5 at the forward or outer end of the head,'so that the loops or the forward ends of the wings are loosely 1nter locked with each other in order that they may swing relatively to each other. A t the rear or inner end of the head, the wires 1 and 2 are intermeshed or interlaced, as designated generally by the numeral 6, and the wires or strands diverge to a common point at the inner or rear end of the head.

From the rear or inner end of the head, the wires or strands are extended to provide a shank, and the strands of the shank are intertwisted. The shank is doubled to provide a rigid twisted guard 7 lying in the axis of the beater head and a twisted outwardlyprojecting support 8 parallel with the guard. A handle 9, of wood or other suitablefmaterial is mounted upon the, support or portion 8, and the handle is preferably covered with cloth, felt or other soft material. One strand of the twisted support 8 is extended angularly from the outer end thereof, as at 10, and is provided with an eye or loop 11 embracing the strands or wires at the outer or forward end of the guard. The portion 10 provides a tie or brace connecting the forward or outer end of the guard 7 and support 8, and although the tie 10 prevents the support 8 from being flexed away from the guard 7 the tie 10 will naturally flex or bend more readily than the twisted portion, to permit the support 8 to flex slightly toward the guard 7 when the beater is in use. The wire loop 11 embracing the wires or strands will also prevent the strands or wires of the guard from being loosened or untwisted during the action of the beater head under the strains to which it is subjected.

The head of the beater, as a whole, tapers from the forward or outer end to the handle or guard, in order that the inner end of the head is relatively small while the outer head is relatively large.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A carpet beater comprising a heater head including several strands of wire, the strands converging to a common point at the inner end'of the head and then being extend- .ed to providea shank, the strands of the shank being twisted and doubled to prov de a rigid twisted guard lying in the axis of the beater head and a twisted outwardlyprojecting support parallel With the guard, as my own, I have hereto affixed my signaone strand of the said support being extendture in the presence of two Witnesses. ed a ngularly from the outer end thereof and havlng a portion embracing the strands at WOOD KELLER" 5 the outer end of the guard, and. a handl Witnesses:

mounted upon the said support. J. H. MUNN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing J. WV. HIDLAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

